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You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

All limits are self imposed.

All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.

You can plant a dream.

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.